
1993 Christmas concert poster designed by Craig Fennell
The 53rd Annual Christmas Concert of the Virginia Glee Club was performed December 10 and 11, 1993 as part of the Glee Club 1993-1994 season. Owing to renovation of Old Cabell Hall, all concerts were performed at University Baptist Church on the Corner. The director was John Liepold.
The concert featured the premiere of the Glee Club's commission of Alice Parker's setting of the Ave Maria; several movements from the Missa Ave Maria by Cristobal de Morales that was a feature of the entire 1993-1994 season; a set by the Virginia Gentlemen; and traditional Christmas favorites including "The Winter Song" and the Donald Loach arrangement of "Stille Nacht." This set of Christmas concerts also premiered the Glee Club's performance of "Betelehemu." Absent from the program was the champagne toast in "The Twelve Days of Christmas”; the execs felt this would be inappropriate in the church venue.
The concert was released on a 2024 recording as 53rd Annual Christmas Concert, 1993.
Program[]
- Ave Maria (13th century plainchant)
- Alle, psallite cum luya (13th century conductus)
- Missa Ave Maria (Cristobal de Morales)
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Ave Maria (Mark Keller (b.1954))
- Missa Ave Maria
- Sanctus
- Benedictus
- Ave Maria (Alice Parker (b.1925)) (premiere)
- Missa Ave Maria
- Agnus Dei
- Maoz Tsur (traditional Hanukkah chant)
- Carol: Rock of Ages (traditional Hanukkah hymn)
- Betelehemu (Nigerian Christmas song)
- Carol: Joy to the World (traditional English carol)
- The Virginia Gentlemen (John Navarrete, director)
- Angels We Have Heard on High (traditional French carol)
- Please Don't Cry on Christmas (John Navarrete)
- The Twelve Days of Christmas ((not so) Traditional)
- Winter Song (Frederic Field Bullard)
- Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (Randall Thompson)
- Stille Nacht (Gruber/Loach)
- Ave Maria (Biebl)
- Dona Nobis Pacem (traditional)
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Sponsors[]
Businesses sponsoring the concert with program advertisements included:
Rising Sun Bakery, the Pasta Warehouse, Littlejohn's Deli, Mincer's, Hot Cakes, C&O Restaurant, Miller's, Bodo's Bagels, Café Europa, Oasis, Heartwood Books, the T-Shirt Factory, Peregrine Travel, Take It Away, Baja Bean Company, Derek's U Spirit, Mane Cut, Daedalus Books, Eljos, Fellini's, Subway, Macado's, Sir Speedy, The Alumni Association Gift Shop